Document retrieval and handling system



nited States Patent 11 v [72] Inventor WarrenD.Novak 3,225,770 12/1965 Lasleyetal 312/223 Chappaqua, New York 3.241780 3/1966 Bendick et a1 340/ 174.1 [21] Appl. No. 618,698 3,297,379 1/1967 Artaud 312/223 l l Flled 1967 Primary E.\'aminerAllen N. Knowles [45] Patented Oct.27, 1970 Hamilton, Ohio acol'pol'afinn of New York ABSTRACT: A retrieval system is disclosed having a pair of spaced parallel storage racks, each having IOOOnumbered and addressable storage compartments arranged in a fifty DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL AND HANDLING column by twenty row matrix configuration. Normally posi- SYSTEM tioned in each of the numbered storage compartments 18 a car- 20 Claims, 51 Drawing Figs. tridge holding up to 100 randomly arranged cards each of which 18 code notched along its lower edge to permit digital US. addressing for electing a card from a deck of cards stored in 1 2 l 77 the cartridge. A cartridge receiving station for retrieving cards [51] Int. Cl B071: 5/36 f a Cartridge, Selectively or in bulk is positioned behind ofsealch l0, one of the racks beneath a delivery port formed therein A 11051 74/222; 312/223 340/1741); cartridge transporting device for transporting cartridges 212/2717, between their respective storage compartments and the cartridge receiving station is also rovided. The cartrid e trans- [56] References cued porting device includes a carriage, which travels bet een the UNITED STATES PATENTS racks, for transporting cartridges between their storage com- 2,386,520 10/1945 Watson et al. 312/223 partments and the delivery port. Further included is a card 2,707,666 5/1955 Becker 312/319 and/or cartridge address entry device to permit an operator to 2,779,652 1/1957 Orr 312/319 initiate delivery of a cartridge to the cartridge receiving sta- 3,199,674 8/1965 Kalthoff et al 209/805 lion where one or more of the cards may be retrieved.

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